At least ten people have lost their life when an SUV car lost control and fell into a canal near Mathura in Uttar Pradesh in the early morning on Sunday.

The accident happened near Mathura-Bharatpur road when the Innova car lost control and fell into a canal. The driver is missing and is being searched for.

Those who died in the unfortunate incident were residents of Rajeev colony, Subhash Nagar, in Bareilly. The were who were going to Balaji at night and around 4:30 in the morning their car Innova went uncontrolled fell into a canal near Mathura- Bharatpur road.

The vehicle carrying pilgrims from Mehandipur Balaji temple lost control and fell into the Makera canal, said SP (rural) Aditya Shukla. As of now, eight bodies have been fished out.

''Efforts are on to trace the remaining bodies and we are probing the incident further", said police.